UVic borrowers
Eligibility for subsidized interlibrary loan services
All UVic borrowers are eligible for subsidized interlibrary loan services:
- Undergraduate students (see limitations for undergraduates)
- Graduate students
- Faculty and staff
- Affiliates
Interlibrary loan materials for undergraduates will be obtained from Canadian libraries only. Exceptions may be made if your professor is willing to sign the Letter of permission.
Other categories of library usersUVic alumni and community borrowers are not eligible for subsidized interlibrary loan services. However, you may obtain interlibrary loan materials for a fee through the Infoline. A current schedule of charges is available.
Placing requests
Interlibrary loan requests must be placed using the Item not at UVic? page. If you require assistance, please contact us: ill@uvic.ca or 250-721-8234.
Materials available through interlibrary loan
- Books
- Journal articles/newspaper articles (see copyright information)
- Microforms
- Government documents and conference proceedings
- Theses and dissertations
- Items officially missing from the UVic Libraries
- Different edition of a book held by the UVic Libraries
Materials not available through interlibrary loan
- Videos and films (borrowing arrangements may be possible through Music and media)
- Materials already in the UVic Libraries regardless of format
- Reference books
- Entire issues of journals (copyright information)
- Materials in high use in the lending library
- Rare and fragile items
- Materials which are difficult and/or expensive to ship
- Sound recordings
Other restrictions on interlibrary loans
- Requests are restricted to items required for research, UVic employment, thesis/dissertation or course work.
- Requests are not accepted for general interest topics, hobbies or genealogical research.
- Eligible borrowers may not make requests on behalf of ineligible borrowers.
Copyright issues
Under the terms of the Access Copyright Agreement and the Copyright Act, the UVic Interlibrary Loan Service cannot order more than one article at a time from the same issue of a journal, or copies that comprise more than 10% of a published work.